Invalid Carriages (Sark) (Amendment) Law, 2006

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The Invalid Carriages (Sark) (Amendment) Law, 2006

THE CHIEF PLEAS OF SARK, in pursuance of their Resolutions of the 19th January, 2006 and 19th April, 2006, have approved the following provisions which, subject to the Sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, shall have force of law in the Island of Sark.

Amendments to the 1967 Law

1. The Invalid Carriages (Sark) Law, 1967[a] is hereby amended as follows -

(a) immediately after section 1, insert the following additional section-

“Driving licence fees.

1A. (1) There shall be chargeable in respect of the issue or renewal of an invalid carriage licence issued under the provisions of this Law a licence fee calculated in accordance with this section.

(2) The fee chargeable under this section shall be such sum as the Committee shall prescribe, being a sum not greater than the sum prescribed for that purpose from time to time by Ordinance of the Chief Pleas.

(b) in section 5(1), the definition of “invalid carriage” is deleted and the following definition substituted -

“”invalid carriage” means -

(a) an electrically propelled vehicle the weight of which unladen and excluding the weight of the traction batteries does not exceed 254 kilograms and which is specially designed and constructed, and not merely adapted, for the use of a person suffering from some physical defect or disability and is used solely by such a person; or

(b) a bicycle or tricycle which -

(i) has a kerbside weight not exceeding -

(aa) in the case of a bicycle, 40 kilograms; and

(bb) in the case of a tricycle, 60 kilograms;

(ii) is fitted with pedals by means of which it is capable of being propelled; and

(iii) is fitted with no motor other than an electric motor which -

(aa) has a continuous rated output which, when installed in the vehicle with the nominal voltage supplied, does not exceed, in the case of a bicycle, 0.2 kilowatts, and in the case of a tricycle, 0.25 kilowatts; and

(bb) cannot propel the vehicle when it is travelling at more than 15 miles per hour;”

Amendments to the Ordinance of 1967.

2. In the Road Traffic (Tractors and Invalid Carriages) (Sark) Ordinance, 1967, as amended -

(a) at the end of section 10(1), immediately after the words “as the case may be” there shall be added “Provided that in the case of an invalid carriage which is a bicycle or tricycle the requirements of this section shall be satisfied if there is fitted one such lamp to the front and one such lamp to the rear of the invalid carriage”; and

(b) in section 19(1), for the definition of “invalid carriage” there is substituted the following -

“invalid carriage” has the meaning assigned to it by the Invalid Carriages (Sark) Law, 1967”.

Interpretation.

2. The Interpretation (Guernsey) Law, 1948[b] applies to the interpretation of this Law.

Citation.

3. This Law may be cited as the Invalid Carriages (Sark) (Amendment) Law, 2006.

[a]	Ordres en Conseil, Vol. XXI, p. 196.
[b]	Ordres en Conseil Vol. XIII, p. 355.